You might be interested to read about whistled languages, which is pretty close to that idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language

I know Norwegian also has two different written standards, found an example that demonstrates it:

>English: I will not tell anyone the secret.

>Bokmål: Jeg skal ikke fortelle hemmeligheten til noen.

>Nynorsk: Eg skal ikkje fortelja løyndomen til nokon.

Source: https://www.visitnorway.com/typically-norwegian/norwegian-la...

Yeah, so really there are at least 3 translations of Lord of the Rings, to continue that example, and I was being a typical Bokmål user and ignored Nynorsk.

The title differences are also a good illustration of how different it can be:

Bokmål: Kampen om Ringen, Ringenes Herre (the first one is literally "the battle for the ring")

Nynorsk: Ringdrotten

I'd assume you can get USB floppy drives for 3½" disks pretty cheaply. I think I might've even seen that in my BIOS settings as an option.

Perhaps it's always been burning, since the world's been turning?

In Utah it's 4:20PM

I still dream of Orgonon https://youtu.be/m97WlpsuU74?si=g77UHyI8aEmiH-k8

Amazing! What a gift. I really enjoyed that, and will continue to really enjoy that for years to come.

Thank you for this, I had never seen it and it brought me joy.

bravo!

I vaguely remember something like that happened during the Egyptian revolution/Tahrir Square protests.

I noticed a similar thing for Python 3 questions, closed as a duplicate of a Python 2 response. Why they weren't collated and treated as a living document is beyond me.

My feeling is that many times the moderators are not competent to decide correctly.

They could go with "when in doubt, keep the duplicate", but they chose the opposite. Meaning that instead of happy users and duplicates, they have no duplicates, and no more users.

You can also put the lambda function inside the let function, which is handy.

Also, almost everyone should be using tables instead of ranges. The references are missing a few features, but it makes formulas a brazillion times more readable.

> He had special glasses with a special lens to read.

Bifocals, I'm guessing.

Many people with MS get diplopia, and so need prismatic lenses to help with the double vision.

He passed away ten years ago, the glasses were custom-made in 70's or so. He'd close one eye and use the other (better suited for this). He'd have tremors, including in the eyes. Reading made him very tired, eventually a friend would read complex beta literature before him. To me (as kid) the glasses felt like a huge looking glass.

A friend of my parents also made a custom card deck, with huge symbols and letters. That way, we could work around his disability. We always had to work around his disability, and it regressed but slow variant and he was also too old to get the medicine which effectively stopped the MS from getting worse. However, it meant other people who had the quick version or were younger got more QoL.

I don't think he ever used Calibri. I mean, at that time, he wasn't into computers anymore. He had all kind of health isssues due to MS. It pains me to think people like him now have more difficulty to read letters because of BS decisions like these just cause NIH or whatever the silly reason must be. But there's also good news: if it is digital, they can override the font and such.

Sounds like he had lots of good people around him helping him.

The technical aspects you mention are important. I have diplopia, and also close one eye. It gets worse in the evenings. I love paper books and own many, but all my reading now is on a Kindle, with a huge font. It makes it so much easier.

Have you tried eye-patching as a therapy to train the non-dominant eye?

Not sure about love, but I like it at least, it's useful to me. But it's like a frozen TV dinner, not something worth bringing up.

People in the past couldn't get a diagnosis, so they had to settle for cirrhosis.